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...sensitive to criticism that his court is too activist. From Bush v. Gore to the many laws that it has toppled like tenpins, this court has drawn charges of judicial activism. Some who know the conservative Justices believe they're touchy about this...
...come down from the trees during the daytime, when the elephant attacks cease. Officials say hundreds of other forest villages in the region are also regularly trampled by irate pachyderms. "When I visit [the villages], I feel like I'm visiting a war-torn place," says Shashi Bhushan, an activist for the People's Union for Civil Liberties. The elephants are agitated because the lack of food in their own natural habitats has forced them to stray into human villages; when the locals resist, the elephants get mad. Meanwhile, the Indian government seems capable of little more than punning...
...President is to be congratulated on his boldness. But now Bush needs to ensure that the check gets signed - BOB GELDOF, musician and Africa activist...
...initiative on aids is being fueled by a bizarre and peculiarly American alliance. Where else could an aggressively self-confident and largely gay activist community find common purpose with the Christian right? Different aspects of the bill reflect the concerns of such disparate groupings as Act Up, the Abstinence Clearinghouse, drugmaker Merck and Co. and the Catholic Medical Mission Board. The aids consensus came about in part because scripture readings with Bono and the grassroots take-up of the Jubilee movement for debt relief have helped change the religious right's take on aids in the developing world: what...
...price of $101.50 per share. Financial analysts estimate the stock would be trading at around $55 today based on the firm's performance if PPR were not buying it up. The bigger issue for investors is whether Pinault's financial situation could drain PPR. Colette Neuville, a French shareholder activist who has frequently crossed swords with Pinault in the past, wanted to know at a recent shareholders' meeting why the company was buying back its stock so aggressively and paying out such big dividends. Serge Weinberg, PPR's chief executive, replied that the stock buybacks were standard, and that...